Supercard DSTWO hands-on preview

[elixirdream]

its not me for sure..its someone from china...

i don't think i would have trouble sourcing the firmware

EDIT: he got it for 198 CNY

cheaper than list price (198.00 CNY=29.0110 USD)

 

[Ryukouki]

Meh... why do I have the feeling it's you?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Meh... why do I have the feeling it's you?

My thoughts exactly.

It's not because he knows of someone who got it early that it was definitely him, don't spread rumours of which you can't be sure if they're true.

 

[Des_Kaje]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Whatever, without firmware it's useless.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Whatever, without firmware it's useless.

The guy can't use it yet, but at least he can already take a look at the insides of the card...

 

[Des_Kaje]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Whatever, without firmware it's useless.

The guy can't use it yet, but at least he can already take a look at the insides of the card...

Okay, but what is the use of doing that if you can't even properly test the cart itself? The only thing that would be nice is if he posts some pictures of the thing itself. But really, what is the point of saying someone has the card but can't properly use it? I don't get it.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Whatever, without firmware it's useless.

The guy can't use it yet, but at least he can already take a look at the insides of the card...

Okay, but what is the use of doing that if you can't even properly test the cart itself? The only thing that would be nice is if he posts some pictures of the thing itself. But really, what is the point of saying someone has the card but can't properly use it? I don't get it.

There's no point in doing it, it's just for bragging rights I guess.

 

[iFish]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Elix has the card

 

[Berthenk]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Elix has the card

You sure about that? I would seriously laugh if it's true. Maybe they want someone with knowledge of AR hacking to test Free Cheat for them...

 

[Nollog]

Ripped off the gba emulator from themself ? iplayer and dstwo is made buy the same manufacturer, now i have no doubt when i look at both PCB.

About SNES emulator, i can already play some games on my flashcart without any need of extra CPU, thanks to a french coder.

No, darkchen ported vba breaking the license for the code, and it seems supercard took that with or without the knowledge of darkchen.
So they didn't steal from themselves, they stole from a person who stole from people who worked years at it.

I agree, snes emulation doesn't look like it will happen without them stealing more code.

 

[Perseid]

Ripped off the gba emulator from themself ? iplayer and dstwo is made buy the same manufacturer, now i have no doubt when i look at both PCB.

About SNES emulator, i can already play some games on my flashcart without any need of extra CPU, thanks to a french coder.

No, darkchen ported vba breaking the license for the code, and it seems supercard took that with or without the knowledge of darkchen.
So they didn't steal from themselves, they stole from a person who stole from people who worked years at it.

I agree, snes emulation doesn't look like it will happen without them stealing more code.

Why do I get the feeling this card is going to be useless without an open SDK?

I don't even understand why they'd keep it closed. Letting people who are better at homebrew do their thing would ease their own workload.

 

[TM2-Megatron]

But then, at the same time, wouldn't this aid companies who make clone cards?

Considering the EX4DS (assuming it's still even coming out) is already in the late stages of development itself, I don't think the lack of an SDK is really going to stop cloners. If a clone has an SDK released while the Supercard doesn't, though, then that may give the clone a major advantage of the DSTWO and result in a loss of sales. I think it's in SC's best interests to release the SDK, personally.

 

[how_do_i_do_that]

It doesn't really matter if there is a SDK anyways, cloners have the actel/xlinx/whatever chip dumpers. We already got an example of one, the EX4.

 

[9th_Sage]

But then, at the same time, wouldn't this aid companies who make clone cards?

Considering the EX4DS (assuming it's still even coming out) is already in the late stages of development itself, I don't think the lack of an SDK is really going to stop cloners. If a clone has an SDK released while the Supercard doesn't, though, then that may give the clone a major advantage of the DSTWO and result in a loss of sales. I think it's in SC's best interests to release the SDK, personally.

Besides, there's no confirmation that the hardware inside an EX4DS is 100% the same as what is in the Supercard DSTwo, is there (if there, is, let me know

)? It's possible what works on one may not work on the other. Then again, like people are saying, it could be a 100% clone of iPlayer.

 

[Jakob95]

Ripped off the gba emulator from themself ? iplayer and dstwo is made buy the same manufacturer, now i have no doubt when i look at both PCB.

About SNES emulator, i can already play some games on my flashcart without any need of extra CPU, thanks to a french coder.

No, darkchen ported vba breaking the license for the code, and it seems supercard took that with or without the knowledge of darkchen.
So they didn't steal from themselves, they stole from a person who stole from people who worked years at it.

I agree, snes emulation doesn't look like it will happen without them stealing more code.

Source that he ported VBA? I didn't think so.

He ported the GBA emulator on the PSP to the iPlayer not VBA...

 

[elixirdream]

just to inform you guys
someone already got the cart but no firmware

Whatever, without firmware it's useless.

The guy can't use it yet, but at least he can already take a look at the insides of the card...

he will get his firmware

someone who actually got the firmware offered him
not sure will he post any new pictures

if do i will upload here for you guys

 

[9th_Sage]

Oh, I was wondering about something today. Normatt said that the DSTwo 'emulating', or perhaps simulating is a better term, the cartridge commands (to fool anti-piracy crud) and such would drain the battery...how much of a CPU would one need for that?

My hope is that the CPU is clocked low and only clocked up when needed (ie GBA emulator). It seems like most of the features when running games (the guide, realtime save, cheat search...etc) wouldn't need too much CPU to work well. Of course, no way to know really, just fun fun speculation.

I wish they'd go in depth with how things work with the DSTwo, I have a lot of interest in how the CPU communicates with the regular parts of the DS and vice versa.

 

[_Chaz_]

The version in the video looks to be nothing to get excited about, but with all of the features to be fixed and added upon release, I want it.

 

[Leonidas]

Source that he ported VBA? I didn't think so.

He ported the GBA emulator on the PSP to the iPlayer not VBA...read this topic http://gbatemp.net/t169613-gba-emulator-fo...gress?&st=0

here's a sentence from his progress info:
QUOTEMore than one week has passed since I have got SDK, and I’was down to the GBA emulator development (in fact it calls migration of VBA) in this period.

so unless this is in klingon, he clearly stated it's VBA.

 

[ahtin]

I am one of the lucky guy who have DS Two but no firmware, waiting for the sc staff online....